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Fragment of a letter from the lepers of Tiberias, probably to Fustat.
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Dirges in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi. The poem on the lefthand page has a refrain beginning כהני and refers throughout to the prominent merchant …
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Fragment of a letter, probably. In Arabic script. The beginnings of ~7 lines are preserved. Mentions Ibn Khālawayh and his Grammar; then some phrases which …
List of names and quantities in Judaeo-Arabic with Coptic/Greek numerals. The only heading visible on the recto mentions a street in Cairo (דרב ואלי אלולאה) …
Letter probably from a man, in Jerusalem, probably to a woman named Marḥaba, perhaps in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with many colloquial forms (incl. the suffix …
Verso: Fragment of a detailed report about the colors and development of crops, as part of a will. Relevant to Karaite law for intercalculating a …
Piyyuṭ probably in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi. One of them is headed simply "by Moshe (ZL)" - referring to his late brother?
Religious commentary – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 11) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Letter addressed to a dignitary (ha-rav ha-gadol, ha-maʿoz ha-migdol—a title usually reserved for Maimonides or his son). The handwriting is distinctive (especially the curly זs). …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps Mamluk-era. Mentions the city of Rashīd (Rosetta). Narrating a story about the death of a girl and perhaps conflict …
Legal fragment in Hebrew. Some unusual formulae, and unusual hand. Late? T-S AS 206.304 and T-S AS 206.304 seem to be two different legal documents …
Detailed business and personal letter from Alexandria to Fustat. The letter narrates the difficult situation in Alexandria during a siege, probably al-Afdal's siege of 1094, …
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to the synagogue and the noble congregation: ... עד ביאת הגואל ... אלי אלכניס ... אלגמאעה אלכרימה …
Likely a letter in Arabic script. Very faded/damaged.
Document in Arabic script. Probably a letter. Recto and verso have different formats and probably different hands.
Official-looking document(s) in Arabic script. Small fragment.
Historical or literary narrative in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Upper part of a tax receipt for Yaʿqūb b. Khalaf, a Jewish nightwatchman (ṭawwāf).
Fragment of a marriage contract between ʿEzra b. Menahem and Jawhara bt. [...], a virgin. Dating: mid-11th century, since ʿEzra b. Menaḥem signed T-S 10J28.2 …
Mysterious fragment, probably in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
A few words in Arabic script: "by Ḥajjāj b. ʿAbdallāh under the supervision of [...]." Reused on verso for a Hebrew liturgical text.
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Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (thin strip from the right side of recto). …
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Both pages are filled with poetical phrases in Judaeo-Arabic, significance unclear.
74 minute fragments (paper), of which one contains jottings in Arabic (row 1, no. 4), and one is probably part of a letter in Arabic …
Receipt of payment (ṣaḥḥ), for ʿĀbidīn(?) b. Qusṭ(?).
Small fragment from the upper left corner of a legal document mentioning [...] the translator (המתרגם). (Information from CUDL.) In the hand of Ḥalfon b. …
Ketubba according to the Palestinian style. Dated: 4810 AM = 1049/50 CE. In the hand of Eliyyahu b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, when he was either reviʿi …
Small fragment of a ketubba. Location: Fustat. Bride: Jadīda. No details preserved. On verso there is one word preserved: "al-Dalāl" (a woman's name) or "al-Dallāl" …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Lease document for a house in Fusṭāṭ, owned by Abī Saʿīd b. Makārim b. Abī Saʿīd al-Yahūdī, the overseer of …
Letter appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a header and some phrases in Hebrew.
Recto: Geonic (?) responsum regarding two orphans who claim property their father had entrusted to another. Verso is barely legible, but seems to be a …
Verso: Arabic text, probably a letter. Expressions of longing: من الود . . . وعندي من دمع . . . . Reused on recto for …
IB II, 13 + 14. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: three fragments of two copies. Aden, ca. 1130s. An additional copy …
Your hands shall prevail over your foes, and all your enemies shall be cut down.
To our esteemed master and lord Abraham—may G…
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Legal resolution by the Karaite community regarding the issue of marriage before the completion of the betrothal period. Dated: 18 Adar I 5398 AM (1638 …
Fatimid state document. Needs examination. Reused for a memorial list (see PGPID 19130).
Ownership note for a quire (kurrāsa) of raḥamim belonging to Abū Manṣūr b. Khalaf. Rudimentary hand.
Diagram of the structure of Rambam's commentaries on the Talmud's "Tractate Middot" – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 236) …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. The two columns are written in two different hands. The text on the left is extremely similar to the text …
Paraliterary text. Ink recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. The recipes are for making iron gall ink using gum Arabic and vitriol. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic script concerning sugar (qand, qaṭāra). On recto there are liturgical instructions concerning certain parashot. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Collection made at a circumcision feast. The ba'al ha-mila, or father of the boy, gave 1 (presumably: dirham), a few others did the same, most …
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Fragment from the end of an account in Arabic script, maybe official. Concerning flour, mentioning 50 irdabbs. Phrases: ما تسلمه من دار المذكور وهـ[ـو] . …
One word from an Arabic state document (ṭāhir). Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Recto: Legal document (left side only) written on parchment by a Muslim notary, apparently in an official government office in the Sharqiyya district in lower …
Letter from Yosef b. Ma'la to Nethanel Abu Sa'id b. Sadaqa. The letter opens with a full-fledged congratulation, referring also to the Feast of Tabernacles …
Note addressed to Abu al-Faraj, saying that Abu al-Makarim is to receive payment from the bearer, in the amount of two qirats (of a dirham) …
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably late. Possibly a join: ENA NS 39.21 + ENA NS 42.28.
Verso: Accounts for the year 1427 Seleucid, which is 1115/16 CE. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. May be related to recto.
Letter fragment from an unidentified sender, in Damsīs, to Abū l-Faraj Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal, likely in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: first half of …
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Letter from Abū Zikrī b. Sulaymān, probably in Wanā (in the Fayyūm, mentioned verso, l. 5), to [...] b. Yūsuf, likely in Fustat. He might …